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Return of The 8th Class Mage (Web Novel) - Chapter 116: The Return of a 8th Class Mage
Chapter 116: The Return of a 8th Class Mage
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Princess Haileyy had received orders from the crown prince to protect Ian’s family, and that’s exactly what she was doing. Even the vice-captain Paul was accompanying them, leading the people. Their destination was the shelter not far from the palace that was only meant for use by the royal family and the high officials.
“Ice wall!” Princess Haileyy chanted and at her order, an ice wall shot up from the ground all around them. Princess Haileyy didn’t hesitate to demonstrate her abilities as a 4 Class Mage and pushed back the progressing dragon soldiers. Thanks to her, it became easier leading the people.
“This way! We’re almost there!”
Paul, the Vice-Captain of the 2nd unit of the palace guards, his men and even the people couldn’t help being surprised. Who could blame them? No one had expected Princess Haileyy to turn out to be a mage. Who would have guessed? Also, judging from her powers, she seemed to be quite accomplished.
“Her… Her majesty was a mage?”
“I had no idea…”
“Then why would she… someone like us…”
The people continued to whisper among themselves. This was new to them. The skeleton monster’s attack. The fact that the princess was a mage. Even the way the crown prince was putting his life on the line by intervening in the fight. Could this be what is called a noble sacrifice of the noble class? Such noble deeds were only sung of by troubadours at a stand-up bar, or only appeared as stories in books
‘Amazing,’ Vice-captain Paul thought. Paul, the knights and the soldiers thought this whole situation was bizarre in many ways. His men were thinking the same thing as the people. Vice-Captain Paul, however, was seeing the whole situation and thought of it differently.
‘It seems like something happened to her and Sir Ian.’ .
There had been a rumor in the palace recently that Ian Page, the master of the Ivory Tower and Princess Haileyy Greenriver were in a romantic relationship. That was because Ian had been entering the palace more often, and most of his visits were for the princess only. Paul thought the wrong information was being spread, though.
‘Could it be because of magic?’
The meeting of the two people. Once he thought of the word ‘magic’, it all became clear to him. Their meetings would have been nothing more than private lessons. The truth of the rumor now became clear to him.
‘I’m sure she’s at least over 3rd Class.’
Vice - Captain Paul was a bright scholar that had studied the ‘Great Battle of the Mages’ with his direct supervisor Oliver. He had special knowledge of mages and could somewhat identify the level of the princess’s class.
‘Had she been hiding this.’ Vice-captain Paul was deep in thought, then shook his head. This was not the time to let his mind wander.
‘Now’s not the time. Let’s focus.’
There was one job for him to do, and that was to escort the people to safety. He looked at the sword strapped to his waist. The weight of his sword felt different.
“Stop!”
Princess Haileyy led everyone to a stop. All this time, she had been using the Detection Spell to make note of any monsters that might be approaching, but there seemed to be a problem.
“What’s wrong?”
“Over there. There’s one coming.”
The princess pointed to an empty neighborhood alley. At that moment, a skeleton monster appeared in their sight with the sound of thudded footsteps. Its golden eyes and terrible-looking spearhead shone brightly. The monster looked bigger than others. There was only one though, so it wasn’t a problem.
“Is it just one?”
“With my magic, it looks like it.”
“If that’s the case…”
Paul took out his blade. After all, wasn’t he the vice-captain of Unit 2 of the royal knights? He had enough skill and he could even use the Mana Blade of Blood that he had inherited from Oliver. One monster wasn’t a problem.
‘I’ll take care of it.” Paul said as he approached the monster. As he got closer, he could see its size more clearly. It was clearly bigger than the others.
Paul was called a “leader of action” for a reason
“Hyaa!”
Red blood dropped on Paul’s blade - the blade he had been inherited from Oliver. He then started to display his excellent skills as a knight.
CLANG -!
This was strange. Although it was weaker than Oliver’s blade, Paul blade also vibrated with a blue light. It was enough to break the skeleton monster’s bones, but he couldn’t. This monster’s bones were different. Not even a scratch was left, let alone a cut.
“Wha… what the…”
Paul was in shock. He quickly changed his posture to get ready to defend himself from the next attack.
“Huh…?”
The Skeleton monster didn’t attack him though. Instead, it simply flailed one of its arms around. Paul could tell the monster simply thought of him as an annoying fly.
“Ugh!” Vice-Captain Paul struggled to regain his balance. This monster was different from the ones he had fought so far - the size, strength, and sturdiness of its bones. It surpassed all other monsters in every way.
(My goal… my duty…) The Skeleton monster murmured slowly in a small voice.
Paul and Haileyy were up close, trying to deal with the monster. The voice was only loud enough for them to hear.
(About… Page…)
Page? Why was ‘Page’ being mentioned out of nowhere? Could it refer to the surname of Ian Page?
(The end… of everything…) The monster continued. Page/Page had something to do with the end of all living beings. The monster said that was their goal. Then…
(The goal… )
The monster pointed the huge spearhead in front of them and pointed to a woman. It was Vanessa Page, the mother of Ian Page.
(Get rid… of her… ) The monster muttered as if it were an order. The princess quickly set up a Detection Spell to check whether the monsters were approaching.
“Oh…?” Her face fell.
She hadn’t been able to detect the monsters a few moments ago, and now the monsters were surrounding them from all directions.
“Sir Paul! They’re coming!”
“Huh? Where are they coming from?”
“We’ll be surrounded soon! We have to escape…!”
However, the princess was wrong. They weren’t getting surrounded ‘soon’, they were already surrounded.
(Our goal…)
(Get rid of them…)
(Our… duty…)
(About… Page…)
(Destroy…)
(Everything…)
The voices were coming from all directions. The monsters were in hiding. They had hidden their presence and their mana.
There was nowhere to escape in the first place.
“An ambush?” Paul realized.
It is said an ambush is a given in battle. However, they hadn’t even considered it as a possibility, as the opponent was only a skeleton monster. Their lack of caution had led them to this point.
“Dang it…” Paul grasped his sword. Haileyy also summoned her mana. They were in the worst situation possible. How were they supposed to get out of this mess?
“Pyro Blast!”
Princess Haileyy created a pillar of fire. The ball of fire was bigger than what Paul had expected. Could it blast through the monsters? The princess decided to have hope and then-
BANG
It didn’t end well at all. The monsters weren’t disturbed in the slightest. It was the same no matter the magic she summoned, whether it was fire, bitter-cold wind, sharp ice, or thunder. All of Haileyy’s spells were useless.
(This is it… We’re done for.) The fairy queen mumbled in Vanessa’s arms. The fairy queen had been watching all along.
(The Treasure of the Shield. It’s the Treasure of the Shield.) She mumbled.
“What do you mean?” Vanessa asked. It would have been helpful if the queen was about to give some advice, but alas, her response was devastating
“As long as those skeletons have the Shield, nothing will penetrate it… and definitely not by the powers of a little girl.”
The Treasure of the Shield. The dragon soldier that was called ‘The Shield of the Dragons’. It was the power of the Spartoi.
(I… I should have saved my powers…) the fairy queen thought.
Of course, just because she saved her powers, it didn’t mean she would have stopped the dragon soldiers. It was too early for her to blame herself. Perhaps it was because of the weight of her authority? No - it was much more than that.
“Pyro blast!” The princess shouted as she summoned another ball of fire. refusing to give up. She hurled it at the monster.
KWWAAAAA
The monster who had been blocking off Paul’s attacks earlier also blocked off this attack and approached them, walking out of the protection of the shield.
(Our goal… our mission…)
There was no one to stop him. There was nowhere to escape, either. The people began to panic.
“Uhh… uh……”
“Sa… Save us!”
“Do something!”
The people panicked even more as the monster got closer. They simply yelled and begged to no one in particular. No one wanted to die. Haileyy and Paul didn’t want to die, either.
(Page…)
In the midst of the chaos, no one seemed to notice the skeleton monster was shining its eye brightly at Vanessa Page and no one else.
(Destroy…)
Then, at that moment.
“Who?” A voice sounded out of nowhere, but it wasn’t just the voice. Then, there was a huge white figure. It was a figure even bigger than a dragon soldier. A white dragon, the first dragon of its kind, appeared out of thin air, legs first. It kicked down on the soldier’s head to the floor.
“Did you say you’ll destroy her?”
A voice asked, shaking with fury. It was neither Haileyy’s nor Paul’s voice. It wasn’t the soldier who had fallen to the floor, either. And it was definitely not the voice of the white dragon
“I…Ian…”
“Sir Ian…?”
“Sir Ian!”
Ian slid off the dragon. He was wearing a new robe, new gloves, and holding a new staff in his hand. There was a small earring on his left ear, too
“Stay right where you all are for a moment.” Ian said, addressing them more calmly.
However, his eyes were still glaring, a way of showing he was controlling his anger.
“Dragon.”
“Krrrr…?”
“Protect the humans.”
“Krr!” The dragon growled in response and nodded as if it understood.
Just then, it blew out blue flames in the direction of the dragon soldiers that were closing in. It was the ‘dragon breath’ in action. The dragon was superior in power and strength so even the shield was starting to weaken. No wonder Dradragon No. 1 was one of the greatest Artifacts.
“Good…”
Ian said, satisfied as he flew upwards. He had already taken an overview look of the city. Now all he had to do was take care of this mess.
“Battle field. Dark cloud.” Ian chanted. His first spell was climate change. The city skies suddenly turned dark, full of dark clouds.
“Seer Detection.”
His second spell was the Seer Detection. A grey energy of mana spread all over Greenriverdium. Ian started setting apart the people from the dragon soldiers.
“Whew!”
Ian let out a sigh. Starting from the third spell was the real problem.
“Absolute Barrier.”
Anyone who knew magic would know how tiring this spell was. Although it was a powerful shield, it wasn’t the solution to the current problem. But Ian wasn’t done yet.
“One By One.”
Just then, something strange happened.
The Absolute Barrier was a powerful shield, and now it was being set on everyone.
“Wha… what is this?”
“Is this… magic?”
“A shield force?”
The people who had been set apart with the Seer Detection now had a barrier over themselves. Every individual literally had a shield over them ‘one by one’. It was magic that only a mage who had an infinite amount of mana in hand could do.
“Hey dragon?”
“Krr…?”
“Duck.”
Ian’s ‘magic show’ wasn’t over yet. He was done casting the barrier over everyone, but why go through the trouble in the first place? Just to protect everyone? Yes, maybe that was one of his reasons. But then…
“Hmmmph…!”
Ian held his breath again as he summoned his mana and an infinite amount of mana started to boil into action.
“I just need to leave one bastard alive.”
He had already differentiated the people from the dragon soldiers in the whole city. What would this mean? It meant he had already identified the location of all the dragon soldiers. This was different from a normal Detection Spell. No one could hide themselves now.
“And for everyone else…” Ian murmured.
He had a plan in mind - a plan to destroy the tens of thousands of dragon soldiers.
“Let’s take this to the end.”
Ian proclaimed. Just then, the dark clouds that had darkened the clouds started to thunder. It was as if the clouds were ready to spit out the thunder and lightning.
KKKKRRRRRRRRGGGGGGG
Everything was ready. The thunderbolts were hovering over the entire city, and all the energy was awaiting the order from Ian.
“Rod From God.” Ian chanted, and the spell showed its true form.
